Summary

Civilization in the Westblends social and political history with an exceptional map and image program to engage students and bring history to life. The authors tell a compelling story of Western Civilization that is enhanced by an image-based approach. "The Visual Record" chapter openers draw students in by using illustrations that underscore a dominant theme of the chapter. New "Image Discovery" features guide students to interrogate images, understand their contexts, and unpack their multiple meanings. The dramatic, changing contours of the West are explored through an exceptional map program, throughMap Discoveryfeatures, and throughGeographical Tours of Europe.

Table of Contents

Documents

Maps

Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures

Preface

Supplements0

About the Authors

Introduction

The Idea of Western Civilization 1

The First Civilizations 3

The Visual Record: Ítzi's Last Meal: Tradition and Innovation in Prehistoric Europe

Before Civilization

The Dominance of Culture

Social Organization, Agriculture, and Religion

Mesopotamia: Between the Two Rivers

Map Discovery: The Ancient World

The Ramparts of Uruk

Tools: Technology and Writing

Gods and Mortals in Mesopotamia

Sargon and Mesopotamian Expansion

Hammurabi and the Old Babylonian Empire

The Gift of the Nile

Tending the Cattle of God

Democratization of the Afterlife

The Egyptian Empire

Map Discovery: The Egyptian Empire

Religious and Royal Consolidation Under Akhenaten

Between Two Worlds

The Hebrew Alternative

A King Like All the Nations

Exile

Nineveh and Babylon

The Assyrian Empire

The New Babylonian Empire

Persian Expansion

A Closer Look

Discovering the Pharaohs

The West and the Under World

The First European Immigrants

Documents

The Code of Hammurabi

A Homesick Egyptian

The Kingdom of Israel

Early Greece, 2500-500 b.c.e.

The Visual Record: Hecuba and Achilles: The Birth of Greek Civilization